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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in admissions in a private in the DMV. The school has been discussed many times on this site.

It is true, we have very few slots for new families. For example, our kindergarten class is over 50% siblings. This is the highest it’s ever been so it really limits new family admits. [b]We have examined trends and many of our families simply have larger families now. [/b]

As for higher grades, most grades have some attrition but we are probably only filling 4-7 seats throughout the lower school. I’ll note, grade 3 is not a growing year for us. [/quote]

That part in particular that I've bolded is 100 percent incorrect.  People, especially wealthy and educated, are having significantly fewer children. [b]This is a fac[/b]t.[/quote]
It might be that across the larger population family size is smaller.  But what matters is for the families applying to that school.
I know many wealthier families who are in private schools (not Catholic) in the DMV who have 3 or 4 kids.[/quote]

Anecdotally that’s what you’re experiencing, I understand and of course, believe you. Statistically however you are incorrect; that’s not happening, especially in the wealthier and educated demographic. It may very well be that the schools are taking fewer students, but it has nothing to do with expanding families. It’s actually despite smaller family size. [/quote]

No. This has been explained before. Nationwide averages do not contradict actual local data from a particular school. The administrator said they had surveyed their families, and they have more children than the families at their school used to have. This is a fact. “Statistics” do not render data “incorrect.”

In any case, I think you’re wrong.

https://qz.com/1125805/the-reason-the-richest-women-in-the-us-are-the-ones-having-the-most-kids

It’s one of the best-established relationships in economics: as women’s education and income levels go up, the number of children they have goes down.

But something happened to the American family over the last three decades: that downward slope became a U-turn. Women in families in the top half of the income spectrum are having more kids than their similar-earning counterparts did 20 years ago. Women from the very richest households are now having more children than those less-well off. Less than 28% of 40- to 45-year-old women in a household in any income bracket below $500,000 per year have three or more children, according to data from the 2011-2015 US Census, while 31.3% of families earning more than $500,000 do.

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